HOW MANY INNOCENT PEOPLE WILL BE MURDERED BY BLACKS TODAY?..........THE LOOTING ACROSS AMERICA is as black as the staggering murder and crime rates of BLACKS ACROSS AMERICA. Black Lives Matter? NO LIFE MATTERS TO BLACKS!

The Atlanta “cheating” case and the crisis of public education in the US

3 April 2015

On Wednesday, four former elementary school teachers, two principals and five administrators in Atlanta, Georgia were convicted on state racketeering charges for inflating the results on standardized tests taken by public school students. The brutal and vindictive treatment meted out to the educators is a watershed in the campaign to vilify teachers and further dismantle the public education system in the United States.

The Fulton County prosecutor argued that charging educators under the state’s Racketeering Influenced and Corrupt Organizations (RICO) Act, which is ordinarily reserved for organized crime cases, was warranted because the educators personally benefited from changing the answers on the tests through bonuses and promotions. They face 20 years or more in prison.

In fact, an investigation by the Georgia governor’s office in 2009 found that a “culture of fear, intimidation and retaliation infested the district,” led by then-Superintendent Beverly Hall, with teachers facing humiliation, demotion and firing if they did not meet student achievement targets.
The convictions followed an unprecedented seven-year probe by the Georgia Bureau of Investigation that was characterized by a “Salem witchcraft mentality,” according to the defense attorney for elementary school teacher Dessa Curb, the educator acquitted of all charges.

The seven-month court case had the air of a show trial, with police mug shots of the defendants plastered across the web site and pages of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, which launched the initial investigation into rising test scores and demanded that an example be made of the educators who did not make plea bargains.

With a certain glee, the newspaper reported the chilling scene after the jury rendered its decision, when the middle-aged educators handed their jewelry and personal belongings to attorneys and loved ones before they were handcuffed by deputies and hauled off to jail to await sentencing.

Scandals involving doctoring test scores are the inevitable outcome of the punitive “teacher accountability” schemes that have been promoted by both big business parties to scapegoat teachers for the consequences of decades of budget-cutting, teacher layoffs and the growth of poverty, which the best teachers in the world cannot possibly overcome.

The obsessive promotion of standardized testing began with former President George W. Bush’s 2001 "No Child Left Behind Act," which was co-authored by Democrat Edward Kennedy. It has been accelerated under Obama’s Race to the Top program, which rewards school districts that tie teachers’ pay and jobs to “performance” and “valued added” targets, while accelerating the closing of “failing schools” and their replacement with for-profit charter operations.

It has long been the reactionary argument of these so-called school “reformers” that the needs of children are being sacrificed to the supposed selfishness of teachers, by which they mean demands for decent pay, smaller classroom sizes, more supplies and a measure of job security.

The campaign against teachers is above all aimed at destroying what remains of the egalitarian and democratic character of public education and intensifying the drive toward a class-based school system, where the children of the wealthy enjoy the best that money can buy, while the sons and daughters of the working class are relegated to 19th century-style “poor schools.”

If anyone should be held accountable for conspiring to undermine and destroy education, it is those who have systematically starved the public schools of resources in order to provide more tax breaks and business opportunities to the super-rich. These include the billionaire oligarchs Eli Broad and Bill Gates, the Pearson textbook and testing empire, and other corporations seeking to cash in on the $1.3 trillion “education market.”

Along with them should be President Obama and his education secretary, Arne Duncan, who have overseen the wiping out of hundreds of thousands of teachers’ jobs and the closing of more than 4,000 schools. Not to be left out are the leaders of the American Federation of Teachers and National Education Association, who have not only sided with the Atlanta witch-hunt, but facilitated the attack on teachers and promoted the expansion of charter schools.

While workers are persecuted without mercy, the perpetrators of crimes that have destroyed the lives of tens of millions continue to operate with impunity. The entire US economy is based on “racketeering” and conspiracy against the people.

The Wall Street banks, credit rating agencies, federal regulators, news media and politicians from both big business parties conspired to cover up the financial criminality that led to the 2008 economic crash. While millions lost their homes, jobs and savings, the financial aristocracy was not only not held accountable, it was made richer than ever.

The US government launches wars based on lies, invades countries, and organizes “regime change” operations in blatant violation of international law. The highest levels of the state and military-intelligence apparatus are implicated in torture, yet no one is held accountable.

The Obama administration dispatches drones to assassinate anyone it chooses, including American citizens, and deploys the largest domestic spying apparatus in history, and the only ones who are made to pay are those who expose these unconstitutional crimes, such as Edward Snowden, Julian Assange and Chelsea Manning. The police brutalize and murder unarmed citizens with no fear of prosecution, while the full weight of the capitalist state, including militarized police departments, falls upon those who dare to protest.

This is class justice in America.

Jerry White

The fraud of Obama’s “Student Aid Bill of Rights”

By Nancy Hanover
23 March 2015

Last week President Obama announced a series of
executive actions that he dubbed a “Student Aid Bill of Rights.”

The initiative is partially an exercise in damage
control. It follows a series of lawsuits and scandals involving the Department
of Education (DOE). The government agency has become the target of growing
anger for protection of predatory student loan collection agencies, its bailout
of the for-profit career college chain Corinthian
and its overall profit-taking from student loans.

The
43 million Americans who owe some $1.3 trillion in student loan debt were
offered zero forgiveness. In fact, Obama does not propose even one measure to
actually lessen the ever-escalating cost of college or encroach on the
lucrative business of student loan debt. All the “rights” remain in the hands
of the government, the banks and hedge funds.

Far
from a “Bill of Rights” Obama continues to deliver a fraudulent bill of goods.
At every point, his administration has protected the financial industry in
looting an entire generation of students, preventing millions of young people
from either attaining the education they desire or making them pay through the
nose for the rest of their lives.

THE OBAMA REGIME’S ASSAULT ON THE AMERICAN
BORN WORKER RATCHETED UP ONCE AGAIN!

OBAMA’S PROMISE TO CRONY BANKSTERS: Not one
day in prison!

“Nearly five years after the greatest financial crash since
the Great Depression, triggered by rampant illegality and fraud on the part of
the major banks, not a single major institution or leading bank executive has
been indicted, let alone tried, convicted and jailed.”

Hillary has declared bankster
looting will see even greater rewards from her administration!

“In reality, the settlement falls far short of holding
JPMorgan accountable for its fraudulent sale of mortgage-backed assets, which
netted the bank tens of billions of dollars in profits while exacerbating the
sub-prime mortgage crash that led to over ten million foreclosures in the US
and a global economic downturn that thrust many millions more into unemployment
and poverty.”

THE OBAMA SUPER DEPRESSION AT HAND: Crony
capitalism and the Obama administration at work for the 1%

Global
financial markets are on the road to another crash, with consequences even more
serious than the collapse of September 2008. There have been a series of dire
warnings from within the ruling class itself that present monetary policies
have created massive financial bubbles with devastating consequences.

“They knew Obama was an unqualified crook; yet they
promoted him. They knew Obama was a train wreck waiting to happen; yet they
made him president, to the great injury of America and the world. They
understood he was only a figurehead, an egomaniac, and a liar; yet they made
him king, doing great harm to our republic (perhaps irreparable.)”

THE
LA RAZA-OCCUPIED STATE of MEXIFORNIA PUTS OUT $22 BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL
SERVICES TO ILLEGALS…that’s on the state level alone! Counties pay out billions
more!

New wave of tuition hikes proposed for California universities

By Marko Leone and Clodomiro Puentes
17 April 2014

Over the past several weeks, the University of California Board of Regents
has proposed tuition hikes in light of projected budget shortfalls. Despite
California Governor Jerry Brown’s 5 percent increase in funding, the budget
proposed by the UC Regents in November was short $124 million.

“Slowly, Mr. Obama has changed the United
States into another country — the Soviet States of America — an authoritarian
state where false promises of "hope and change" were used to
manipulate the public.”

THE
LA RAZA-OCCUPIED STATE of MEXIFORNIA PUTS OUT $22

BILLION PER YEAR IN SOCIAL
SERVICES TO ILLEGALS…that’s on the state

level alone! Counties pay out billions
more!

New wave of
tuition hikes proposed for California universities

By Marko Leone and
Clodomiro Puentes
17 April 2014

Over the past several weeks, the University of California
Board of Regents has proposed tuition hikes in light of projected budget
shortfalls. Despite California Governor Jerry Brown’s 5 percent increase in
funding, the budget proposed by the UC Regents in November was short $124
million.